This isn't the first time President Saleh has said he's ready to resign. He's made similar promises in the past, only to reject them at the last moment. Now however, he says he's ready to step down within days. But the president made no mention of a transition deal

brokered

by Gulf Arab states, and many Yemenis are deeply sceptical.

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has become directly involved in questions about the working relationship between his Defence Secretary Liam Fox and a close friend, Adam Werritty. Mr Cameron says he wants to see the initial findings of a report into the relationship by Monday. From Westminster, Robin Brant reports.

David Cameron's

intervention

means that Liam Fox won't now have to wait two weeks before the investigation that he ordered comes back with conclusions. It's been confirmed his 34-year-old former

flatmate

organised and attended a meeting in Dubai last June between the defence secretary and a group of businessmen from the defence industry. That's in spite of the fact that Mr Werritty has no formal role at Britain's Ministry of Defence nor in the ruling Conservative Party.

The New Zealand navy has sent four ships to help

break up

an oil spill that's threatening one of the country's most spectacular coastlines. This leak is coming from a container ship which ran aground on a reef about 12km from the Bay of Plenty, which a BBC correspondent describes as one of New Zealand's environmental jewels. Planes and helicopters spraying chemicals from the air have so far failed to break up this leak, and the oil has already started to damage wildlife.